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Unattended : Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1

02/04/2009 - 15:37

Adobe recently released the Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1 which fixes critical vulnerability that would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Hopefully it also fixes the problems people are experiencing with Roaming of Application Data on Terminal Servers. I have not been able to [...]

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Cloning XenApp with WDS & MDT

23/03/2009 - 16:04

Start setting up your Windows Deployment Server and Windows Deployment Toolkit on a Windows 2003 R2 or Windows 2008. I would prefer Windows 2008 since it has support for multicast. When you can successfully boot via WDS with the LightTouch WIM you are ready for the next step. Tips : If you are using BroadCom [...]

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Clean up your desktop

28/02/2009 - 17:50

Discovered a very cool application today which organize your icons on your desktop or hiding them all simple by double clicking your desktop. Very handy when you are doing a presentation @ your customers! Works great with Windows 7, download here.

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Deploy Windows 7 with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta

26/02/2009 - 09:55

The new Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta are very smooth and I successfully tested it on my XenServer Lab during a couple of hours yesterday. Sign up for the MDT 2010 Beta and follow the guide : MDT 2010 Quick Start Guide for Lite Touch Installation. If you are hosting your lab environment on XenServer [...]

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Unattended : Adobe Flash Player

26/02/2009 - 09:07

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Flash Player, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information and potentially gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, disclose potentially sensitive information, and compromise a user’s system. Read more at Secunia.com First of all you have to download [...]

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Windows 2008 R2 on XenServer 5

17/02/2009 - 10:26

Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Beta are unsupported and experimental on XenServer 5, but to install these OS you need to download the template Windows 7 Beta x64 Experimental Template and import the template through XenCenter. There is a lot of new features in W2K8R2 and like Citrix, it’s important to change the names…..the [...]

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Unattended : CutePDF Writer for Terminal Server

11/02/2009 - 12:32

Going through the StatPress logs I discovered that a lot you are having problems with Acrobat Reader 9 on Terminal Server and are really fed up with Adobe Support. So I decided to make a script for installing the free CutePDF Writer and FoxIt Reader. First of all you have to download GPL Ghostscript 8.15 [...]

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Make your USB hard drive a bootable Windows 7 install disk

04/02/2009 - 16:56

Found a very nice blog showing you who to make your USB hard drive bootable to install Windows 7. Tonight I’m going to install Windows 7 on my HP 2133 Netbook. Check it out here “Make your USB hard drive a bootable Windows 7 install disk”

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Clone a Windows 2008 Server with XenApp 5.0

09/07/2008 - 09:16

Follow the procedures from my previous blog, Clone a Windows 2003 Server with Citrix Presentation Server 4.X Windows Server 2008 has Sysprep built right into the OS, found at c:WindowsSystem32SysprepSysprep.exe. You can run Sysprep either from command line or from the GUI. From command line : sysprep /OOBE /Generalize /shutdown From GUI (Remember Generalize or [...]

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